Kevin Grieves (Whitworth University) is pleased to announce the publication of his new book, Cold War Journalism: Between Cold Reception and Common Ground (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). The book explores journalism and journalists of the Cold War era as they were perceived as threats, but also attempts at forging transnational journalistic connections across the Iron Curtain. The book also illuminates efforts to find common journalistic ground within the East and West blocs. The research draws on a range of archival sources, including historical radio and television content.
Vincent DiGirolamo (Baruch College) has been awarded the 2021 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019). The prestigious prize honors the best first book written on the period 1865 to 1920 published in the previous two years. Crying the News, said the award jury, “sensitively brings to light the experiences, struggles, and influence of a massive group of child laborers who walked the streets of our cities and towns, often unseen if rarely unheard, for more than a century.”
Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) has won the History Division’s annual Covert Award for her article, “The Voices of Public Opinion: Lingering Structures of Feeling about Women’s Suffrage in 1917 U.S. Newspaper Letters to the Editor.” Her article “offers insight into the production of letters to the editor as an act of strategic communication by suffragists and anti-suffragists, the regulation of letters to the editor by news gatekeepers and agenda-setters, and the consumption of letters to the editor by newspaper readers in 1917, a pivotal year in the decades-long cultural struggle over women’s suffrage.”
Earnest Perry (University of Missouri) has won the AEJMC’s Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity and Research Education. His work includes co-editing Cross-Cultural Journalism and Strategic Communication: Storytelling and Diversity (Routledge, 2020, second edition), with Maria E. Len-Rios.
Jinx Coleman Broussard (Louisiana State University) has won the History Division’s annual Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award for her ground-breaking contributions in the history of journalism and mass communication scholarship, as well as her years of excellence in teaching and mentorship. Her work includes Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis: A Symbiotic Partnership (Peter Lang, 2019), with Andrea Miller;African American Foreign Correspondents: A History (LSU Press, 2013); and Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists (Routledge, 2004).
John Maxwell Hamilton (Louisiana State University) has won the History Division’s annual book award for Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda (LSU Press, 2020). The judges described the book, which examines the Creel Committee’s establishment of a propaganda system and the threat it posed to democracy, as “a magisterial work, comprehensive and highly readable.”